Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Factors associated with admission before the day of elective major surgery: an analysis of data from the UK Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme
Primary result · Admission before the day of surgeryResult — go to the resultOdds ratio 1.93 95% CI 1.59–2.35Authors' conclusion
Multiple risk factors for admission before day of surgery could be addressed through policy or local quality improvement.
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing major elective surgery, UK, December 2016 to February 2024
- Participants
- 54,267 patients
- Comparison
- Patient, case and hospital characteristics associated with admission before the day of surgery
- Primary endpoint
- Admission to hospital before the day of surgery
Methodological detailsmixed-effects multivariable regression
- Mixed-effects multivariable regression
Primary result
Admission before the day of surgery
Odds ratio
1.93
95% CI 1.59–2.35
>64 km vs <6 km
OR 1.93 (95% CI 1.59–2.35)
As reported in the abstract
- Admitted before surgical date
- 9124 (17%)
- Clustering by hospital (intraclass correlation coefficient)
- 0.527
Secondary outcomes
Prolonged postoperative LOS
- Associated with identifiable case-level factors explaining most of the variation; intraclass correlation coefficient
- 0.063
Original publication
Factors associated with admission before the day of elective major surgery: an analysis of data from the UK Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme. Br J Anaesth. Published 31 December 2025. doi:10.
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